kittykat

It's not a hard ask. We only want the economy of 1997 and the euphoric optimism of 2009. Let's do this!

I mean I was pissed when Bush got reelected in 04 but not this level of horror inducing, mind-numbing anger. And it's not like post 9/11 early aughts were the damn salad days either, they were stressful. But not even close to what we experience every day now.

I know I'm a month late on discussion but just got Sunrise on the Reaping through Libby and I'm already on Chapter 12 after two days. I'm seriously amazed that five books in we get the same setup and still get a completely different story and experience each turn. I'm already in jump-into-the-book-i-wanna-save-them-all mode (there was one character I was in ride or die mode with then two pages later they died). All the callbacks and characters adds to the already awesome Catching Fire. Have a few theories about how things are going to go down once the games begin but I'll leave it at that. And Chapter nine further cements Coriolanus Snow as one of the most intriguing yet hateful rat bastards in modern day literature.

I'm not even Canadian and I'm stressed out awaiting these results. Good luck neighbors.

Seriously the policy seems to be "if liberals hate it so much let's bring it back."

The sad part is that women in the Corporate world are encouraged to see other women as competition. If there is a big conference table there is usually only one seat available for the token woman. So when another smart, ambitious woman comes up the other woman feels that she is coming for her seat. Because it's so unfathomable that maybe she could take one of the male occupied seats. Noooooo. And it's men usually egging this on. Obviously my analogy is incredibly simplified and there are many exceptions but it seems like these environments tend to encourage a mindset where women view other women as rivals instead of allies

Oh fucking hell! He did it AGAIN!!! Good thing meritocracy is alive and well and we got rid of all those female and non white no gooders.

And I bet Kavanaugh and Gorsuch haven't been receiving as much vitriol as ACB. Hmm I wonder why 🤔

What in the ever living fuck? Apparently someone in DOGE is not doing their job because this person clearly has too much time.

And yet Gaza was the number one reason for the 3rd/no voters. I swear people think Biden can snap his fingers and Netanyahu will pull back. That was never going to happen. And they refuse to lick their wounds hiding behind their "bothsidesism" curtain. And on the migrant crime, pretty much every credible outlet says it's down. It's the selective outrage any time a woman is killed. Yes we should be talking about it but under the issue of violence against women and not just migrant crime. And not only mentioning the cases where the perpetrator is an immigrant or POC. I read somewhere that anytime someone mentions vandalism against a Tesla dealership they should counter it with a report of a woman being sexually assaulted or killed because they sure love reporting one but not the other.

I've been watching Coachella webcasts all wknd and there have been a few political jabs at the current situation. Billie Joe from Green Day changed some lyrics and Nicolas Jaar from DARKSIDE gave a Free Palestine speech. The performances have been good escapism from the current shit show.

It's just so disappointing because Maher rambles on and on about cancel culture then kowtows to the Conservatives when it was Conservative Tears in 2002 that got Politically incorrect cancelled.

We can't take any grievance Lindsay Graham has with a grain of salt since he'll just be seen kissing Trump's ring the next day. He can't even travel without his fainting couch. Even when the leopards start eating his face he'll be all "oh my fetch my smelling salts "

Whuh-huh! The Civil War was about states rights! Right? RIIIGHHT! The Mental Gymnastics is just astounding.

I've debated this issue with family members to the death it seems and they still don't get it. They always throw the Lia Thomas example because she won one event and Peyton and the Volleyball injury. It's so infuriating so I'm glad John touched on both of those specifics. Not that I'll be able to bring this segment up. What are trans athletes supposed to do, just suck at sports so they don't get national attention? I did karate as a kid and sparred with boys and girls. I beat and got beaten. I knew the risks and certain sports people understand the risks of getting hurt. Your odds of getting hurt in a high risk sport don't skyrocket because you're going up against a trans person. And puhleeze if they really want to address women's sports talk about the low funding they get, the conditions of practice fields, bad scheduling as mentioned and of course pay discrepancies at the professional level. My high school luckily did well by our female teams. We had a great basketball and volleyball team so they got the prime night slots. The most infuriating thing is how many people buy this narrative. I see so many I'm left leaning but don't believe trans women should be in sports arguments on social media. Does it really affect you that much? Come on! That the right were able to spend so much money on demonizing and it worked.